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Story of the KellyGang - the Royal Commission evidence

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== The Royal Commission evidence for 5/5/1881 ==

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(see also introduction to [[Royal Commission report 5/5/1881|day 16]])

'''[[Jacob Wilson|Jacob Wilson]] '''giving evidence''''''

[[#rc4448|4448]] Did you tell the police they might take the hay if they liked?— Yes; [[SConst Mills|Mills]] said they must have the hay as their horses were knocked up, and paid me for it.

[[#rc4449|4449]] After they went away that time did you give any other information to the police?— Yes.

[[#rc4450|4450]] Who did you see next?— I do not know the name of the policemen, only Senior-constable Mills, but I saw Inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]].

[[#rc4451|4451]] Did you offer to give any information to the police?— Yes.

[[#rc4452|4452]] What did you say?— I told Mills, when he asked me if I would have a look-out in [[Jacob Wilson|Eagan]] 's paddock for horses.

[[#rc4453|4453]] Where was that?— A mile and a half from my place. I did look in Eagan's paddock, and I saw no horses there, only their own horses.

[[#rc4454|4454]] Did you see any trace of the outlaws after that at all?— After that I heard nothing. This was in 1879, and I heard there was nothing before 1880.

[[#rc4455|4455]] Can you say what month in 1880?— In March.

[[#rc4456|4456]] What occurred to you [[events 1880-1/ 1880-3|March 1880]] about the outlaws—you mean you gave no further information to the police till March 1880?— No; I did not give any information to the police till April 3 rd 1880.

[[#rc4457|4457]] What information did you give then on the [[events 1880-4/ 1880-6|3rd April]]?— Some hobbles I found; but I was frightened to give any information, because after they had their horses in my paddock the outlaws' friends came to my house at three o'clock in the night and ordered me up, and I would not get up. Then they took a big piece of stick, and said they would bet me up; that was James [[Jack Quinn Jnr|Quinn]] and [[John Hart|John Hart]], at the [[Fifteen Mile Creek|Fifteen-mile Creek]].

[[#rc4458|4458]] What relation is he to [[Steve Hart|Steve Hart]]?— I do not know whether he is any. They came then and called me to get up.

[[#rc4459|4459]] What names did they call you?— An old b—

[[#rc4460|4460]] And to get up?— Yes; and I said I would not get up, and I asked what they wanted, and they said “Get up;” that was all they said. They then came into my room with the stick and said I was to get up, and I got up and dressed, and I ran away to my neighbors.

[[#rc4461|4461]] What for?— I got frightened of them.

[[#rc4462|4462]] Did they follow you?— They called me back and told me to come down in the creek, and I went down.

[[#rc4463|4463]] Where was the creek?— About fifty yards from my house. They did not say anything going down, and I did not know what they were going to do with me. There they had two horses in a dray with a plough, and two horses tied up—they could not cross the creek, and they asked me to see them across the creek. It was a little deep creek above the crossing place.

[[#rc4464|4464]] Did you see Mr. [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] after this?— Yes.

[[#rc4465|4465]] What did you tell him?— Sergeant [[Whelan|Whelan]] was the first one. I told him Jim Quinn had been at my house.

[[#rc4466|4466]] Did you tell Mr. Sadleir you had found any hobbles?— Yes, that was in March 1880

[[#rc4467|4467]] What did you tell him?— I told him that I found five pair of hobbles in the next paddock to me in some ferns.

[[#rc4468|4468]] Whose paddock was that?— It belonged to the [[Kilfera|Kilfera]] station.

[[#rc4469|4469]] Is that known as Patterson's paddock?— Yes.

[[#rc4470|4470]] Whose paddock is next to that?— [[Tom Lloyd|Tom Lloyd]]'s.

[[#rc4471|4471]] Did you tell him whose the hobbles were?— I told him they belonged to the outlaws, I thought.

[[#rc4472|4472]] Anything else?— Some sort of a cloth they still had some provisions in.

[[#rc4473|4473]] Did you tell him there was a high bank of ferns that you thought they camped in, and sardine tins?— Yes, and newspapers, and all that sort of thing.

[[#rc4474|4474]] Did you tell him you thought they camped there constantly?— Yes, I saw a lot of horses at Tom Lloyd's at various times—three times.

[[#rc4475|4475]] Did Mr. Sadleir ask you to keep a watch on Tom Lloyd's place?— Yes.

[[#rc4476|4476]] In consequence of your telling him the outlaws visited there?— Yes.

[[#rc4477|4477]] Did you see the outlaws at Tom Lloyd's?— I could not tell that.

[[#rc4478|4478]] Did you go up on one occasion believing they were there?— Yes, I went up.

[[#rc4479|4479]] Did you hear the outlaws at Tom Lloyd's?— Yes, I heard [[Dan Kelly|Dan Kelly]] in Tom Lloyd's.....

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